Louis Couture 🏳️‍🌈 @louiscouture@qoto.org

"Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." - Luc van Donkersgoed

#reading #quote #qotd

#changementclimatique #climat #climatechange

Absolutely spot on 👇🏻 #ScottishIndependence2023 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ToryDemocracyDeniers

This article (https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/) about "becoming engaged democratic citizens in the life of your networks" led me to the patron of indieweb.social (https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial).

@tchambers how are you doing with the insane blowup of indieweb.social? What do you need?

Shame on Doug Ford and his team for taking nurses and other public-sector workers to court just to waste taxpayers' money to fight the unconstitutional Bill 124. What a Premier!

Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.

Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing

I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.

Edinburgh #art #scotland

@edbott had these made up a couple years ago

Les gouvernements ne sachant comment conserver l'abordabilité de l'accès au logement, des citoyens s'y attaquent avec succès. Il suffit de sortir un peu de l'ornière néo-libérale de tout au profit privé. Des organismes comme ma Caisse (Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins) se sont jointe au projet pour le rendre réalisable. Une initiative à suivre.

https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/2022/12/15/une-reponse-citoyenne-a-la-speculation-immobiliere-4f1e55776aee1434880d9a54fb1c4bb9

Did some botanical painting after a day mostly spent studying for a security cert. This one is from Nikki Strange’s Watercolor Botanicals book. #watercolor #MastoArt #JoinIn

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀